The beige-and-brown plastic box hums to life, welcoming you with its iconic blue screen and the legendary prompt: READY.
Beside the glowing CRT television screen,
A tape deck whirs, a floppy drive spins clean.
With sixty-four kilobytes, worlds are designed,
A neon-lit dawn for the digital mind.
We type out our magic with PRINT and with RUN,
To watch colorful sprites leap across and have fun.
Through Sid’s three-voice chip, polyphonic and clear,
Chiptune melodies ring in a retro-born ear.
From green-phosphor prompts to the software of gold,
The classics awake as the memories unfold:
CalcResult and MultiPlan tally the sheets,
While WordPro pages complete our text feats.
In GEOS, windows and mice take the floor,
Pointing and clicking to open a door.
LOGO guides turtles to draw on the pad,
While Visicalc numbers make accountants glad.
With Print Shop we banner our banners with pride,
And BASIC sits patiently there by our side.
A glowing brown keyboard, a joystick in hand—
The monarchs and magicians of micro-computer land.